533,000 people have today been issued payments of the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Support payment - up 26,000 on the figure a week ago, according to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

Around 54,000 of those are receiving payments for the first time. These Covid Pandemic payments first introduced on 16 March are in addition to the 210,000 people on the live register receiving "normal" Jobseekers' Benefit - an increase of 3,000 in the last seven days.

The Pandemic Payment figures also exclude workers whose jobs are now being subsidised under the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme (TWSS), to which 42,100 employers have now signed up.

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